463 Full-time PhD programmes in Language Studies

The Graduate Program in English at the University of Kentucky is widely regarded as among the best in the country. 

Studying English at University of Otago also helps to develop writing skills for your own communication, whether for creative pleasure or for your profession.

The Turkish Language and Literature programme offered by Bogazici University develops advanced scholarship in Turkish literature through specialized study in classical and modern traditions.

The Department of English is offered at Rice University as is organized into several different graduate research and teaching clusters.

The graduate program in Spanish and Latin American literatures at Johns Hopkins University offers driven and highly independent students the opportunity for advanced graduate work specifically tailored to their own intellectual interests.

The doctoral program of the Class of Language Education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich offers a research-oriented and integrated curriculum open to doctoral candidates in all language education majors of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the LMU. 

This English program at McMaster University combines a long-standing commitment to the exploration of English literatures of all periods with the study of critical theory and cultural studies.

The DPhil in English at University of Oxford is intended to develop the skills and understanding necessary to undertake and present original research at a high level, and provide a thorough foundation for a career in research.

This English PhD at Boston University provides you with comprehensive training in all areas of literary studies in English.

At the Imperial, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Arabic Studies. For those who wish to improve their command of a foreign language or to embark on a new one, day and evening classes at all levels from beginners to advanced are available within the college.  

Yale University’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department is one of the most dynamic in the United States and takes great pride in the creative and forward-thinking scholarship of its faculty and students. 

The Ph.D. Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Washington requires completion of 90 credits, and includes five components — coursework, completion of a graduate certificate, general exams, the dissertation, and the final exam. 

As you prepare for a career in higher education, you will gain a strong foundation in the study of literature, in the teaching of college English, and in the disciplinary conventions that guide writing and research in English Studies. This program is offered at the University of North Dakota.

The Italian program at Stanford University is committed to forming PhD graduates who are capable of teaching Italian literature and culture at all levels, but who are also articulate public intellectuals, able to connect their academic pursuits to real world problems.

At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Spanish. 

The degrees offered at University of Wisconsin Madison are the master of arts in Portuguese and the doctor of philosophy with a major in Portuguese. In addition, the department offers a doctoral minor in Spanish or Portuguese.

Develop original research into literature and language, from the medieval period to the present day, guided by our expert staff. We offer a English (Online) phd degree at the University of Nottingham. 

This African Languages degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

Staff at the Finno-Ugric Languages section of the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University have wide interests covering the whole Finno-Ugric language family, ranging from Scandinavia to Siberia.

As one of the top creative writing doctoral programs in the country, we offer motivated poetry and fiction writers the chance to refine their creative work while building a portfolio of literary criticism and scholarly writing. We offer a English and Literary Arts - Creative Writing degree at the University of Denver.